Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Manners. Did all this mean that "the situation was deteriorating," or, in plain English, that the world was closer to war? It did not. Two years ago, when honeyed words flew between Russia and the West, the basic ideas, methods, objectives and interests of Communism on the one hand and democracy on the other were every inch as far apart as they are today. The only change is that two years ago a lot of Americans did not realize how big the gap was, and now they do. For this, thanks is largely due to the harsh words...
...rebels by granting local self-government, by accepting as vice governor of Sinkiang (in a coalition Government) one of the rebels themselves. But the Chinese were wondering. Young (32), trim Vice Governor Achmadjahm had suddenly packed his belongings and family last month. In a Russian plane they flew to the northwest...
Measuring the Eye. In Army & Navy bombers, they made unprecedented clinical studies of a hurricane's doughnutlike anatomy. They took temperature readings and measured wind velocities (up to 150 m.p.h.). They even flew through the tempestuous outer wind-swirl into the doughnut's windless, cloudless central "eye" (TIME, Sept. 22). By radar, they found that the eye was 25 miles in diameter...
Into Washington one day last week flew Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, a part-time diplomat, back from his fact-finding foray to China. He wore a diplomat's dark, double-breasted suit and a forbiddingly noncommunicative air. His pack of reports and recommendations was rushed to the State Department, where it was promptly labeled top secret...
...coffee. They run into fog and have to turn back. There is a lot of vocabulary practice in the natural talk of playing the game. ... I teach everything in English. Then, when [Prince Akihito] learns something, he thinks in English without translation." When Mrs. Vining returns to Japan-she flew home last week for a vacation-she and Akihito will start reading Robert Lawson's book of American biographies, They Were Strong and Good...